title: [Diverticula of the female urethra. Review].
abstract: The authors present four cases of diverticuli of the female urethra, and make a review of the subject, basically from the diagnostic and therapeutic points of view. Even though they acknowledge the great usefulness of a clinical exploration which may sometimes provide palpatory pathognomonic signs, they consider essential to perform a urethrography, without overlooking the i.v. urography, due to the image of compression sometimes produced by a subcervical diverticulum on the bladder, which can sometimes be recognized in the cystogram. They also advise a urethroscopy which provides highly valuable additional data. They make a review of recent papers dealing with echographic diagnosis and consider it to be a highly useful method with great prospects. After a short historical examination, they comment the current treatment techniques and indicate the most suitable one in each case. After reviewing the Spanish statistics, they include a total of 26 cases in the present paper.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D004240:Diverticulum / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D013030:Spain; D014522:Urethral Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000601:surgery
vernacular_title: Los divertículos de uretra femenina (D.U.F.). Revisión.